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MISFITS |
Kelly - Lauren Socha Curtis - Nathan Stewart Jarrett Alisha - Antonia Thomas Simon - Iwan Rheon Rudy - Robert Gilgun 
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Episode 1- first transmitted 30th October 2011Having finished their community payback, the misfits are still hanging out together and find themselves drawn into the fallout of a love triangle involving a boy who can split into two and a girl who can freeze people. Robert Sheehan isn't back as Nathan for the third season of the show about the unlikeliest of superheroes, but the part barely needed rewriting as newcomer Rudy is just as annoying and potty mouthed as his predecessor. Since it took a while for Nathan to become a likeable character it seems that it's going to take an equally long time to come to terms with Rudy. Everyone's got new powers, but they aren't necessarily an improvement. Kelly is a rocket scientist, but nobody believes her. Curtis can turn into a girl, Alisha can see what someone else is seeing and Simon can see the future (sort of). The story is as coarse as those that have gone before it and is unlikely to win new converts, but fans will be glad that it's back. TopEpisode 2- first transmitted 6th November 2011Curtis realises that he could take up athletics again through his female alter-ego. Life, though, is complicated when he falls for a girl who wants both of him and a date rapist. A man finding out about being better to women by becoming a woman is an old idea, but it's rarely been combined with so many varieties of sex and date rape all in the same storyline, but then that's the MISFITS way. Stripped of the language and the sex, though, it's all pretty predictable. Curtis' emotional arc is mapped out long in advance and convinces nobody. Rudy remains annoyingly unconvincing and hasn't got Nathan's foul-mouthed charm (only the foul mouth). There are some nice lines though. TopEpisode 3- first transmitted 13th November 2011Simon saves Peter from a mugger, but doesn't realise that Peter also has a power. Whatever he draws comes true and he draws Simon breaking up with Alisha and beating up the gang. This is the most mainstream episode of the show to date. No longer having to shock for the sake of it (though Rudy supplies the requisite amount of swearing and lewd commentary), it tells the tale of a superhero's birth pangs in a fashion that could have been translated directly from any other superhero show. It's a sign of the show maturing and putting away childish things and it's all the better for it. TopEpisode 4- first transmitted 20th November 2011An elderly Jew goes back in time to kill Hitler, but instead gives the Nazis the power to win the war. It's up to the Misfits to change the timeline back to its original path. Alternative timelines in which the Germans won World War II are ten a penny, but at least what it misses in originality the episode makes up for in energy and brio. The scene in which Kelly finally meets up with Hitler is worth the time spend watching it alone. TopEpisode 5- first transmitted 27th November 2011The gang are gardening at a hospital and Kelly is body-swapped with a comatose patient. Whilst the new owner of her body tries to contact her lover, the gang slowly become aware that Kelly is acting strangely. This is an old, old story, but the MISFITS characters and style manages to breathe just enough life into it to make it worthwhile. Lauren Socha fails to make the two characters that she is playing sufficiently different to make an impact and the rest of the cast are given little to do. In fact, the plot sidelines the whole team for long sections whilst it concentrates on the story of the coma victim. TopEpisode 6- first transmitted 4th December 2011Rudy has a one night stand with a girl only to find that she curses his privates when he tells her he isn't going to call. Now, he can't remember who she is. Everyone's having sex, apparently, and it isn't working out for anyone. Kelly and her boyfriend are about to sail into choppy waters just when things were looking good. Curtis has managed to get himself pregnant in the most unlikely way and Rudy, well Rudy learns a lesson with a series of wild encounters that are highly amusing and delivered with all the expected vulgarity and comedy. TopEpisode 7- first transmitted 11th December 2011When Kelly's new boyfriend resurrects his dead ex-girlfriend, things go a bit awry until the group is faced with a marauding band of flesh-eating zombie cheerleaders. Flesh-eating zombie cheerleaders! If it hasn't been done before then it ought to have been. There are serious takes from PET SEMATARY in this episode as the recently resurrected come back 'wrong' and then just about every zombie movie is referenced, but it is all done with such energy and brio and joie de stamping a zombie's head in that you just don't mind. The script takes the idea and throws a load of one-liners at it, being funny and witty and profane all at once. The love triangle was sort of already visited in Episode 5 with a girl brought back from a coma rather than the dead, but that's forgiven for the sheer fun of the thing. TopEpisode 8- first transmitted 18th December 2011A fake medium with a power to actually control the dead brings back some of the people who have died at the hands of the misfits and who now want revenge. This is a clever, teasing episode that mixes up the funny and filthy with the touching in a way that only MISFITS can get away with, but just when you think you've got it worked out, it throws in a shocking turn of events that leads to an origin story that's been waiting to happen. This is MISFITS at its best, linking back to the past in more ways than one and shaking up the future. If this is the end for the community service crew then it's a fitting way to finish, but it just proves that this is a show that has yet to play out all of its ideas. Top |
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